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12:02 PM, Wednesday April 29th 2020
Lines are p good in general, though I can see you're hesitating a bit.
In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.
A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.
If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit. Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points. Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.
Aim the lines to be as confident as you can make them. Sacrifice accuracy to do this, as accuracy is secondary.
Confidence gets way better as you go through the pages, good job!
Ellipses are mostly confident in general, but they're a bit wobbly too. Same here, always prioritize confidence over accuracy. I also recommend to draw through them only 2 times.
On boxes I can see you might be rushing them a bit. Your quality in lines gets worse. This is probably because you aren't spending as much time on each line as you were on the previous exercises, and because you might not be drawing a starting and ending dot before drawing every line. This is something you should always do, as it's necessary to apply the ghosting method, which you should apply to every line.
You are alsorepeating some lines, No matter how off a line is, don't repeat it, keep going as if it was correct.
On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.
I recommend trying more overlaps on organic perspective. You can clarify after the overlaps by adding a confident, drawn with the shoulder superimposed line. Perspective on them has issues but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so don't worry about it!
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Good job on finishing l1! Don't forget to take your time with each line, ghost it, drawing it confidently, and no matter how wrong it is, don't repeat it! Good luck with the 250 box challenge!
8:26 PM, Wednesday April 29th 2020
So those boxes were my last 244 to 250, should I move on ? To lesson 2 ?, or is there anything that I should focus on, or redo?
8:51 PM, Wednesday April 29th 2020
Post all your boxes on a submission on the box challenge and I'll go over it. Almost finished critiquing all l1 critiques so I'm going over the box challenge ones soon
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